A database is a group of related tables. If I misspoke, I am sorry. I doubt anyone is as perfect as you.
It is not. A database is, as the name sayeth, a base of data. Which can be organized this or that way, tables or not, related or not. For instance, see DBM::Deep. You are not sorry if misspoken, that is clear from the last remark of the cited snippet, in which you pointlessly raise someone only to belittle them.
Your package Attitude fails basic tests.
perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'